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Wednesday Jul 02, 2008

Like most System Engineers at Sun, I'm often called upon to demonstrate Sun's technology especially Solaris 10 and Sun Ray thin clients. In the past, demonstrating Sun Rays meant bringing a customer into our Sun office OR setting up a network server and device at the customer's location.

To make this much easier, I decided to follow the example of others and turn my Sun issued MacBook Pro into a Sun Ray server. As a result of this configuration, I can set two devices on my
customer's desk with only one ethernet cord and no power cords (have to keep those batteries charged) to
display the power of the Sun Ray thin client. I also have a configuration (thanks to Matt) the provides a multi-level Solaris environment via Solaris 10 Trusted Extensions along with the ability to display an MS Windows desktop using Win2003 running in a separate virtual machine on the same Mac. Very Cool!

This script automates the configuration of the Sun Ray Core Servicessoftware and related software products. Before proceeding, you shouldhave read the Sun Ray Core Services 4.0 Installation Guide and filledout the Configuration Worksheet. This script will prompt you for thevalues you filled out on the Worksheet. For your convenience, defaultvalues (where applicable) are shown in brackets.

\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*The current policy has been modified. You must restart theauthentication manager to activate the changes.\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*Configuration of Sun Ray Core Services has completed. Please checkthe log file, /var/adm/log/utconfig.2008_07_02_11:01:42.log, for errors.

About

Jim Laurent is an Oracle Sales consultant based in Reston, Virginia. He supports US DoD customers as part of the North American Public Sector hardware organization.
With over 17 years experience at Sun and Oracle, he specializes in Solaris and server technologies. Prior to Oracle, Jim worked 11 years for Gould Computer Systems (later known as Encore).